Robbery suspect shot dead by police in Ste Madeleine

A rob­bery sus­pect want­ed in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion in the Mon Re­pos dis­trict was shot and killed by po­lice in Ste Madeleine yes­ter­day af­ter he al­leged­ly point­ed a firearm at of­fi­cers pur­su­ing him dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion.

The de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as Mikael Isa­iah Lewis of Corinth Hills.

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Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), around 3 am, of­fi­cers were trav­el­ling along Hi­bis­cus Dri­ve, San Fer­nan­do, when two men re­port­ed that two armed as­sailants had at­tempt­ed to rob some­one but were un­suc­cess­ful.